Re: Mailing-lists, failing probes, unsubscriptions

2017-11-30 Thread Laurent Bercot
This kind of mass unsubscription is often due to DMARC. Ah, thanks. Time for me to understand how DMARC works, then, and make ezmlm work with it. Sigh. E-mail gets more and more broken every year; soon it will just become impossible to run a list. -- Laurent

Re: Mailing-lists, failing probes, unsubscriptions

2017-11-30 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2017-11-30 22:53:55 +, Laurent Bercot wrote: > In the past year, or sometimes at an older time than that, a lot of > addresses have apparently failed enough probes and been unsubscribed, > even still working addresses. Only today was it brought to my > attention. This kind of mass

Mailing-lists, failing probes, unsubscriptions

2017-11-30 Thread Laurent Bercot
Hello, The skarnet.org mailing-lists use a probing system to automatically unsubscribe addresses that don't work anymore. When an address fails 3 consecutive times, it gets removed. In the past year, or sometimes at an older time than that, a lot of addresses have apparently failed enough